Hunter Biden drops lawsuit against Fox News hours after his father Joe dropped out of 2024 race

Hunter Biden has dropped his lawsuit against Fox News just hours after his father, President Joe Biden, announced he was withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race.

The president’s son sued the right-wing outlet for defamation claiming it published nude photos and videos of him without his consent in a six-part fictional mock trial series titled “The Trial of Hunter Biden”.

In the lawsuit, filed on July 1, Hunter Biden accused Fox News of “target[ing] Mr Biden in an effort to harass, annoy, alarm, and humiliate him, and tarnish his reputation” with false claims about his business ventures, drug abuse, alleged illegal activity and foreign investments.

“Far from reporting on a newsworthy event, Fox sought to commercialize Mr. Biden’s personality through a form of treatment distinct from the dissemination of news or information,” the lawsuit stated.

“Indeed, the entire miniseries is fictionalized and based on a nonexistent criminal case.”

Despite stating the trial was fictional, the lawsuit claimed that the show presented actual emails and “nonconsensual intimate images.”

“While using certain true information, the series intentionally manipulates the facts, distorts the truth, narrates happenings out of context, and invents dialogue intended to entertain,” the lawsuit stated.

“Thus, the viewer of the series cannot decipher what is fact and what is fiction, which is highly damaging to Mr Biden.”

The intimate images have also been shown in congressional hearings, most notably by MAGA Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene.

In a statement at the time the suit was filed, a spokesperson for Fox News told The Independent: “This entirely politically motivated lawsuit is devoid of merit.”

“The core complaint stems from a 2022 streaming